Mike Wiendels

When I stated this blog in 2014 it was only meant to be a resume builder, a way to show companies that I knew how to write a decent blog post so I could get freelance gigs. And now it’s… well it’s turned into a sorts of wonderful things along the way.

The pattern even shows up in weirder ways: like when Cosette and I bought a house to turn into an A... See more

"My mind begins to seem like a video game: I can either play it intelligently, learning more in each round, or I can be killed in the same spot by the same monster, again and again."

Good design is often slightly funny.

This one may not always be true. But Durer's

engravings

and Saarinen's

womb chair

and the

Pantheon

and the original

Porsche 911

all seem to me slightly funny. Godel's incompleteness theorem seems like a practical joke.

I think it's because humor is related to strength. To have a sense of humor is to be strong: to kee... See more

The only thing that matters, to me, is to arrange the writing in such a way that I repeatedly return to ideas again and again . I want to reread and make comments and rearrange my notes, not just type it and move on. The reason for that: I’m not particularly interesting or insightful at any point in time, but if I let five or ten Henriks layer thei... See more